{"id":918,"date":"2007-10-11T22:59:45","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T02:59:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-10T22:37:16","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T22:37:16","slug":"mini-thrifty-music-vol-2-spoken-word-edi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mini-thrifty-music-vol-2-spoken-word-edi\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini-Thrifty Music, Vol. 2:  Spoken Word Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/users\/hrrundivbakshi\/mouf.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"551\" height=\"114\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Very briefly:  Following is a small collection of songs that are united by one simple theme &#8212; noteworthy spoken word introductions.  Your job is to determine which of the introductions is the most noteworthy of all.  Is it:<\/p>\n<p>a)  <strong>Stan Ivory<\/strong> (and his Omnificent Orchestra)&#8217;s smoove mooves in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/Give_Me_the_Real_Thang.mp3\" title=\"null\"><strong>&#8220;Give Me the Real Thang&#8221;<\/strong><\/a>?<br \/>\nb)  <strong>Millie Jackson<\/strong> threatening her lover&#8217;s wife with &#8220;a good A-kickin'&#8221; in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/Leftovers.mp3\" title=\"null\"><strong>&#8220;Leftovers&#8221;<\/strong><\/a>?<br \/>\nc)  <strong>Jerry Washington<\/strong> extolling the virtues of pure, selfless love in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/I_Come_A_Long_Ways.mp3\" title=\"null\"><strong>&#8220;I Come A Long Ways&#8221;<\/strong><\/a>?<br \/>\nd.)  <strong>Bobby Dixon<\/strong> making it crystal clear just&#8230; how&#8230; low&#8230; a&#8230; man&#8230; can&#8230; get&#8230; in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/Woman_You_Made_Me.mp3\" title=\"null\"><strong>&#8220;Woman, You Made Me&#8221;<\/strong><\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>While you&#8217;re ranking these for spoken word excellence, set your mind thinking about other rock oratorical masterworks that strike your fancy.  In the meantime, as always,<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your responses.<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very briefly: Following is a small collection of songs that are united by one simple theme &#8212; noteworthy spoken word introductions. Your job is to determine which of the introductions is the most noteworthy of all. Is it: a) Stan Ivory (and his Omnificent Orchestra)&#8217;s smoove mooves in &#8220;Give Me the Real Thang&#8221;? b) Millie <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mini-thrifty-music-vol-2-spoken-word-edi\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}